Fishhook



Au#- 30 1932 F. souTHwELL K 1,875,182

FISHHOOK Filed May 9, 1951 /lmswroR flO vringan eye .forthe attachmentof :Patented .-Aug. 80, v12932 'SERNK SOUTHWEIJL, 0F REDDI'JZCH,ENGLAND, .ASSIGNOR TO O. .MUSTAD .& SON, "OF

OSLO, .NORWAY FISHHO OK Application .'"led May `9, "1931.

This invention yrelates to fish fhooks ihaving `three or more barbs-diverging at roughly -equal inter-vals Iaround .a central stem. Forv:brevity `these are .herei'n referred Ito as imul-1tip1e'=fish`1hooks`..

The {object #of 'fthe invention tis tto `:produce amultiple iish fhookwithout brazingorother operation invol ving heatinglikely to-.damage thetemper y:of the hook.

It fis easy :to imake two barbs in one piece `iby :doubling '-.on4itself ,a member barbed at -feac'h rend, fand twisting `the :hookedends so :that .they lie vside by -side i at an :appropriate angle, i.@..of 120 inthe caseof a'trebleor kthree-barbed hook, .and 90 inthefeaseof a four :barbed hook. vTo complete the hook a Second barbed:member yis attached 'to `such a doubledinember'and.fixed in appropriateposition :relatively `to it solely yby resilient engagementw}it`hzit;fthat .is to say one or other member is sprung .(or bothmembers are sprung) into engagement with the other in `such a wayt'hatithey can .neither slide 1.parallel to .each other, fnor rock oneabout fthe -zotherto'more than aslight and insignificant extent.

.A convenient form of engagement consists in first eloopingitheadditional barbed 'member around the bight of a doubly barbedmemberdoubled on itself. T hisattaches .the Atwo components .together aswell as :provida liner; but leaves leach .member free to swingrelatively `torthe other abouttheir points of attachment. To completevthe .attachment the additional member is shaped to .engage 'between-the limbs of :the .doubled stem ofthe other ata `distance from thebight. This :makes the kstem :parts of both components lie close side`by side, and also Ihinders more 'than a very slight lrelative rotation.about the axes :of :the stems.

By way of example `a treble ibook con- .-structed according 'Sto theinvention is i'llustrated inthe accompanying drawing.

Figure l shows lin elevation a. doubly barbed-component doubled onitself.

Figure-2 is a plan of this component.

Figure 3 shows Vin elevation an additional component with a singlebarb.

by doubling on itself .a .Qateach end, beiulingrtheends to 'foi-inliooks, and twist-ing'these `hooks so zthat they stand 4t-he limbs ofthe doubled stem. the two components can swing relatively to 'loopY 0.and vthe eye 3.

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The component shown in Figure .l is made Wire l having a. barbatan'angle ofabout .'120oas seenin Figure 2. In the course of doubling,forming abightf inthe middle ofthe wire, there ris .formed aneye tat 'adistance `from the bight, sayabouthalf way along the doubled kstemportion ofthe component. The

single barbed component `5 is bent to form a 'hook at its barbed end,and'bent yinto a loop Gatlthe other end, the parts Vof ythe wire beingvin contact where they cross so that the loop is completelyclosed. Inaddition a part 7.of-the otherwise straight stem ofthis com- ;ponen't isoffset from the remainder by two and one in posibends,fone adjacenttheloop eye 4, say half tion corresponding `to the way along the stem.

The bight 3 can be passed over the componentf from one end and sprunginto the loop 6 as seen in Figure 4. The two components are thenresiliently engaged together, that/isy to say .they cannot be disengagedsave 4by us-v ing the relastic yield of the material and springingopen'the loop 6 or springing apart But as yet each other .about theirengaged ends. By

.springing apart the two limbs ofthe doubled -stem .the offset portion'7 ofthe second component maybe passed ybetweenthem, so that this offsetportion comes to lie on one side of the doubled stem and the vremainderof the single stem on the other side, as seen in Figure the junction ofthese two parts passingthroug'h the eye 4. f

.Such resilient engagement practically prevents relative movement of thetwo components. They cannotslide lengthwise relativelysto each other,for that is prevented 'by the The single .barbed member cannot swingclockwise in Figure 5 in addition tobecause the part 5 cannot pass thecontacting lower ends of the doubled stem; it cannot swinganti-clockwise because the part 7 cannot pass the contacting upper endsof the doubled stem; And the components cannot turn ,relatively tojeachother about the'axis f y of either'steml or any adjacent aXis'beca-'usethe eye 4 and the bight 3 will only allovv slight turning of thepartspassing through 10 them. Thus lthe single barb is fixed beside' andatapproximately 120 to the barbs 2.

It will be understood that the invention isI not limited to theparticular form of component'members above described; all that is 15essentiail is that the tWo components should be resiliently engaged sothat they have practiv cally no freedom of relative movement, and thebarbs stand inthe desired relation to each other. By employing twodouble barbed f2() components a quadruple hoek may be made in similarfashion. 'I Claih: v

'1. 'A multiple lish hook comprising a member barbed at each end doubledupon itself and 25 twisted. so that the barbs lie side b v side at anvapiiropriate angle` and asecond barbed member looped' around thevbightof the first and alsopassed between the limbs of its doubled stemata'distance from the bight, so that the two members can neither swingnor slide relatively f to' each other to any considerable extent. `2; A`multiple fish hook comprising a doubly barbed member bent upon itselttopre- 315, sent t'xvo eofplanar loops` and a second barbed memberv passedthrough said loops,` and itself looped around one' ofwthem. 1 3. Amultiple fish hook comprising a plurality of resilient members, onemember liav-v le ing atleast two hooks` the other member having at leastonehook` and means for resiliently engaging said members with eachother.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. A Vaus FRANK SOUTHWELL.

